Mike Knuble
Mike Knuble
Michael Rudolph Knubleis a Canadian-born American former professional ice hockey right winger who played in the National Hockey League. During his 16 NHL seasons, he played for the Detroit Red Wings, New York Rangers, Boston Bruins, Philadelphia Flyers and Washington Capitals...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth4 July 1972
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They showed us where we need to get at. They?re priming for the playoffs and we might be waiting to throw the switch a little bit and we?re running out of time.
season step time
As a player, this is a challenging time in the season and you want to step up.
chance convenient demanding lie motivation point weeks whether
That's kind of convenient to say, but we had a chance at first place. At this point we have to find motivation somehow, whether it's first place, whether it's a day off tomorrow, you've got to find motivation somehow. I'm not going to lie to you and say it wasn't a demanding week, but who doesn't have demanding weeks in their job... That's not an excuse.
building crowd
This building was really jumping, the crowd was really into it.
bit shock taken
We're all taken aback and a little bit in shock because it was done. It was over.
knowing nerves
I don't know if it was nerves or what, knowing this was an elimination game.
digest home huge ice lost time
I don't know. I haven't had time to digest it. But we lost the home ice and that's going to be a huge factor. It's probably going to be a little harder.
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It's annoying as a group. Extremely annoying. The coaches wonder why, we wonder why, and everybody who watches us wonders why. That is what we have been trying to figure out all season. It's more of the same. You can say, 'when the playoffs get here, it's going to be different.' But it doesn't work like that. We have to get it going in here now.
biggest building games test tomorrow
It's all been kind of building up to the quarterfinals. The games were kind of 'easier' at the beginning. Now they're getting tougher. Tomorrow is going to be our biggest test so far.
chance determine game happens number wait
It's frustrating that we had a chance to determine where we end up and now we have to wait to see what happens with other teams. We wanted to have a game like we did (Saturday), but it's tough. They have our number right now.
chance checkers pride relish
Their checkers take a lot of pride in what they are doing. They relish the chance to do that.
crowd helped ready
The crowd was ready and they helped us get into it.
frustrated heading leaves losses playing rink wins
It's not about wins or losses right now. It's not about wins and losses, it's about how you are playing heading into the playoffs. I think we all want to do better. I think we all feel frustrated when we don't play our best. Everyone leaves the rink disappointed.
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It's not a question of shutting him down, because you know he's going to get his shots. You just want to force him into terrible angles to give your goalie a chance. You can't put Jagr out there eight times on the power play and expect to kill it off every time.